Amaranth Borsuk

Interrupt II Studio, February (1)
Interrupt II Studio, February (2)
Interrupt II Studio, February (3)
Interrupt II Studio, February (4)
ELO Conference, Future panel, June

 

At Interrupt, I was starting to think through ways we might grapple with / come to accept platform instability in the generation of new digital works. I was also thinking about the archival dilemmas my collaboration with Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen, poses, since it requires both a print and digital object in order to make the poems appear (which will last longer, the page or the screen?). Gustav Metzger's notion of "auto-destructive art" seemed like a useful starting point, and a point of provocation for Interrupt--since disrupting hierarchy and institutional critique seemed to be a major part of the conversation--so I shared Metzger's second manifesto (1960). I have been continuing to think about the auto-destructive and performative as models for how we document digital writing. All electronic literature is essentially auto-destructive, whether the author intends it or not.

 

http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com/
http://www.amaranthborsuk.com/
http://sigliopress.com/book/between-page-and-screen/